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At one point I was working at a printing shop. One time I was testing color calibration, running the same sheet through the printer multiple times, and these dots became visible clearly.

It was quite a head scratchier, we actually thought there's something wrong with our printer until I googled about these yellow dots.

Yes, this is exactly the story of my interview career.

I've been looking for a full time webdev job for a long time without any luck. I've been asked simple questions and failed them miserably. Failed to write a line of code similar to what I do on a daily basis ("did you actually done our online tests yourself?"), failed to answer on a question about a simple term that I knew (mostly because I read books and docs in original English, while being asked them in my native), failed to answer what projects I've worked on (because I forgot about them all at once), failed by looking for complexity in some trivial questions.

So yeah, the anxiety is strong in me. Meanwhile, I do freelance work part-time at night, making web apps for few clients, while working full-time on an unrelevant low wage job, fearing to lose it because I have to support my wife and 2yo.

As a part-time freelancer who also has a full-time job, I often don't have a choice but to code late at night or early morning.

I honestly hate working at night, simply because I often miss small things that cause silent bugs. On the other hand, coding at early morning (5-6 am, before my wife and kid are up) feels really great.